By Jean Donovan Gilman
June 30, 2020
Rapid growth in health care expenditures has plagued America since 1965 when Congress first created medicare (health care insurance for the elderly) and medicaid (health care assistance for the poor). This study looks into developments since....
By Karen L. Baird
January 16, 2019
This book focuses on gender justice and the health care system. It will be divided into two parts. In Part One, a framework of gender justice will be developed. What is gender justice? What would a gender just public policy look like? What criteria should such policies meet? In Part Two, the ...
By Larry E. Carter
January 16, 2019
First published in 1998. The result of five years of research, this is the final volume in the 6-volume set titled Health Care Policy in the United States. The purpose of this book is to examine the response by American states to the growing demand for health care reform. It seeks to answer the ...
By Sharyn Potter
August 24, 2016
In recent years researchers have asserted that the once-salient distinctions between not-for-profit and for-profit hospitals are quickly eroding. These converging outcomes represent a striking departure from past differences. Historically, not-for-profit hospitals were larger and treated a higher...
By Lisa M. Duchon
August 04, 2016
First published in 1999. This book focuses on the health and health care use of families after they have left the shelter system, with the first three chapters dedicated to a review of relevant literature. The research is based on self-reported data collected during a follow up study of 543 poor ...
By Sherry Emery
October 17, 1998
This book looks at the history and development of telemedicine and its effect on the medical profession. It includes advances in telecommunications and medical technologies that greatly have increased the reliability, resolution, and speed of transmitting medical images, changes that are have been ...
By Felicia Mebane
November 10, 2000
Medicare Politics examines how media coverage, political information, and political participation affect Medicare policy choices. This book is an excellent reference for political science literature concerning the impact of media, the roles of political information with respect to public opinion, ...